Chanita Seedaket Craythorne (Sammy) is a Brand and Media coordinator at Save the Children Thailand. She won the Mrs. World pageant title for 2025, when she represented Thailand on the Mrs World stage in Las Vegas, USA, between 23-29 January 2026. ©Thai Pageant/Save the Children
How Pageantry is Amplifying the Voices of Mothers
Stepping into pageantry at the age of 38, as a working mother and humanitarian, is not about titles or crowns—it’s about visibility. Drawing from her work with Save the Children Thailand and her own lived experience of motherhood, Chanita Craythorne, better known as 'Sammy' shares why supporting mothers is inseparable from supporting children.
In this blog, she speaks candidly about the hidden emotional labor mothers carry, the dangers of neglecting maternal wellbeing, and her decision to speak openly about postpartum depression to help break long-standing silence and stigma